Cisse

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Cisse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • SNSenegal≈1 in 90(inferred from the name graph)
  • CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 233
  • MLMali≈1 in 779

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Senegal (inferred from the name graph)

≈170,000 people, est.

Sources
265 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 90 (inferred from the name graph)

Senegal, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cisse counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Cisse is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SN Senegal#10≈170,000 est.≈1 in 90131Cisse66
CI Côte d’Ivoire#333≈120,000 est.≈1 in 23329KCisse37
GN Guinea—≈93,000 est.≈1 in 13510—23
ML Mali#18≈25,000 est.≈1 in 77920Cisse44
FR France#195≈14,000 est.≈1 in 5K1.7KCisse265
ES Spain—3,6851 in 14K3.7KCisse55
TG Togo—≈1,800 est.≈1 in 4.9K1—11

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026; Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cisse is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Cissé

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Cissě, Cissé

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Senegal, United Kingdom, Mali

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Cissé, Cissè

65 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19401960198020002020Moustapha Cisse Lo, b. 1954Mamadou Cisse, b. 1960Ousmane Cisse, b. 1986Badra Cisse, b. 2003Brandon Cisse, b. 2005

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 38 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Cisse
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—29K#24
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—3.7K#1,411
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—3.7K#1,411
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19911.7K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19811.3K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971411—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961153—
SN SenegalDGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024)2024131#13
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951100—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194165—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193146—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191136—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Cisse have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 174 thousand people named Cisse in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cisse.
How common is the name Cisse?
In Spain, the national register counted 3,685 people named Cisse, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
How common is Cisse compared with other names?
In Senegal, Cisse is the 10th most common surname of 3,622 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cisse” — the 10th most common surname in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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